The Council of Ministers today took an important decision regarding our country’s food security. Poland will maintain a total ban on the import of Ukrainian grain after 15 September. “This embargo will remain in force. We will not allow Ukrainian grain to destabilise the Polish countryside”, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in an evening TV address on 12 September.

The head of government stressed that the interests of Polish farmers and millions of Polish consumers would always come first for the Law and Justice government. He also recalled the scale of the aid Poland has given and continues to give to Ukraine.

“When Russia bestially attacked Ukraine, we behaved as we should. We all rose to the challenge. We passed the test of solidarity. Polish families opened their hearts and the doors of their homes to take in women and children fleeing the war”, said Mateusz Morawiecki.

‘We are not waiting for the consent of Berlin and Brussels bureaucrats when it comes to defending Polish interests, the security of Polish families and the future of Polish farmers”, he said and convinced that the government’s decision has only one goal: to secure the interests of the Polish countryside, but also to secure the interests of European agriculture.

The EU embargo on the import of Ukrainian grain and other agricultural products to Poland and the four frontline states expires on 15 September. Poland is seeking an extension of the ban. At the same time, our country is allowing the transit of food to be sold on other markets.

“We will do everything so that Ukraine wins this war in the full sense of the word, but these future relations, I hope, I am even sure that they will be very friendly, they must, however, be based on respect for the interests of both sides”, said Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński during a cabinet meeting, referring to the issue of the embargo on agricultural products from Ukraine.

Adrian Andrzejewski